Hello, World, Google Duplex Calling: What Does A Rollout Of The Concierge Bot Mean?

Google first showed off its phone-calling bot, Google Duplex, in May, demonstrating how the software can make a call that sounded convincingly like a real person. Now, Google has announced a rollout for Duplex, starting this summer. In this Tuesday, June 26, 2018, photo Nick Fox, VP of Assistant and Search for Google, talks about the Duplex program, which allows the user to book an appointment over the phone, at Oren's Hummus Shop in Mountain View, Calif. Passionate debate followed the demo, including about the ethics of a robot that can sound so real, people at the other end of the phone could be fooled into thinking they were talking to a human. Google insisted that it didn't want to mislead anyone and that the bot would always identify itself as an automated assistant.